Lesson # 9

Teaching with Dramatized experiences

Dramatized experience can range from the formal plays, pageants to less formal tableau,pantomime ,puppets and role playing.

• plays   it is depict life, character, or culture or a combination of all three. Pageants are usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors. Play and pantomime require much time for preparation and so cannot be part of everyday classroom program. While pantomime and tableaux compared to a play and a pageant are less demanding in terms of labor, time and preparation. These are purely visual experiences.
  •    Pantomime   is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only.
  •  Its effect on the audience depends on the movements of the actors 
  • while tableau          is a french word which means picture it is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background. Dale claims 
  • that puppet   unlike the regular stage play, can present ideas with extreme simplicity without elaborate scenery or costume yet effectively. As  an instructional device the puppet show can involve the entire group of students as speakers of parts, manipulators of the figures and makers of the puppets.
                       There are types of puppet:
                     *Shadow puppets-   flat back silhouette made from lightweight cardboard and shown behind a screen
                    *Rod puppets- flat cut out figure tacked to a stick,with one or more movable parts, operated from below the stage level by wire rods or slender sticks
                   *Hand puppets- the puppet's head is operated by the forefinger of the puppeteer, the little finger and thumb being used to animate the puppet hands
                   *Glove and finger puppets- make use of old gloves to small costumed figure are attached
                    *Marionettes- flexible, jointed puppets operated by strings or wires attached to across bar and  maneuvered from directly above the stage
                  
   Another form of dramatized experience is role-playing. Role playing is an unrehearsed, unprepared and spontaneous dramatization of a let's pretend situation where assigned participants are absorbed by their own roles in the situation described by the teachers. It can be done by describing a situation which would create different viewpoints on an issue and then asking the students to play the roles of the individuals involved
   ................................... thanks you Godlesssss..............more power :)